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Asszimiláció vs. együttélés
Assimilation vs. Coexistence

Author(s): Béla Bíró
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: integration; assimilation; minorities; Europe; migrants

Summary/Abstract: The basic idea of the essay is that today Europe – although it populates itself with prospective minorities (the migrants) – is fully unable to face up to the minorityproblem. In Western Europe, the assimilation is today systematically confused with integration, but this “integration” could no longer transform itself in a factual basis of social cohesion. There is a fundamental difference between the – substantially always individualistic – assimilation (i.e. the full acquisition of the majority language and culture) and the – always communitarian – integration, based on multilingualism and multiple identities.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 83-91
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian